shoe
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Uganda's Samuel Simba Cherop lost his shoe and had to run the remaining 15 laps with an increasingly soggy sock on his left foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
But regardless of SpaceX’s viability as a mobile competitor, wireless investors may still worry about when the next shoe will drop with a notoriously volatile company.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Bankers managing IPOs have up to 30 days to support the shares of a newly public company through a so-called green shoe option.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
We went shoe shopping at the South Coast Plaza over the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Mr. Kravitz tore off the shoe and began hopping about on one foot.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
WSJ | Buy Side: Prioritize comfort and practicality without compromising on style with these on-trend dad shoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
"I'd been pulled out of Strictly and I was ready to hang up my dancing shoes," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
To demonstrate, Weger starts layering a mannequin in her bedroom, picking from racks of clothes, handbags, color-coordinated shoes and jewelry nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Illinois: The sales-tax rate is being reduced from 6.25% to 1.25% Aug. 7-16 for certain school supplies at any price, as well as for clothing and shoes under $125 per item.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
He grumbles, but takes it before he flies out the door, shoes in his other hand.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
A typical stanza: Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then she's ta'en him to her chamber, And down in her arms lay he: The boy coost aff his hose and shoon, And ran to fair Dundee.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
"But where will I get a pretty little boy, That will win hose and shoon; That will go quickly to Strawberry Castle, And bid my lord come doun?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
An' noo to face the kirkward mile: The guidman's hat o' dacent style, The blackit shoon, we noo maun fyle As white's the miller: A waefü' peety tae, to spile The warth o' siller.
From A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Stevenson, Robert Louis
There, I felt it with my toes again; see the benefit of wearing sandals, and not shoon.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2026
Dsquared2 also presented for autumn-winter 2026-27 an army of holidaymakers shod in provocative footwear.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He made Liberace’s rhinestone-encrusted footwear and shod Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck for touring productions of Disney on Parade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
But when he faces down a more traditionally shod and tailored adversary, Boy Kavalier unleashes his dogs as negotiating weapons.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Only 18 people shoed up for a debate we hosted, and we had received only seven letters.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
“You got up in the morning, you tended to your horses, you cleaned the hooves out, shoed them and fed them,” Elliott said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
She hates heels, feels like a shoed horse in them.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2012
"One could meditate on Bible verses as one shoed a horse, or patched a pair of trousers, or planed a door."
From Time Magazine Archive
He flailed his hands and even stamped once with his long, narrow, elegantly shoed foot on the plush carpet.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry
After leaving school at 16 with no qualifications, Paul started working for his father but saw little future in shoeing horses and earning "the equivalent of 75p per horse and the chance to be kicked".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
In a memoir, Mr. Hébras recalled the sounds of his town as it had been in his youth — “the church bells and the anvil of the blacksmith shoeing cows and hobnailing our clogs.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
They had to chart new paths through the forest because the sorts of trails used for hiking, mountain biking, snow shoeing or cross-country skiing aren’t suited for skating.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
Cherry’s curiosity about people’s lives produced finely observed pictures of immigrants, street vendors, bocce players, farriers shoeing Central Park carriage horses, construction workers, fruit auctioneers and children watching in amazement as an airplane flew overhead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Smith was put in charge of training and shoeing six racehorses.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
